HRogge Wrote:I can see that version 1 and 2 were instable and dangerous, thats why they are not there anymore.If you are a moral and ethical researcher working on this sort of project, who have you got to use as an experimental subject? Yourself. The odds are strongly against you getting it right first time. And, by the time you get something that is safe, are you going to be sure that the research was worth it in the first place?
But as soon as someone discovers a stable and useful way to use the technology, the researcher decides to end his research, burn all notes and vanish?
You should consider yourself lucky you can walk away, with your physical health, and with some hope you might fully recover, mentally, in a few years. It's also possible the researcher found out things, both about themselves, and the ways that this tech might be abused, that made them really unhappy. He probably had to 'dispose of' quite a few insane versions of his own mind in the process of 'completing' the research, and still the basic problems haven't been solved.
Brains has every reason to be suspicious as to why he might find out about this, but, he has a habit of talking to some very strange people at science fiction conventions... (This is, by the way, based on IRL conversations at cons...)
Quote:(edit) Just a question, you want this as a background for the "workforceI'd consider it to be part of that background, the other parts being Brains study of the plans for the Julian Friez Machine, and how his design of robot mind (particularly the Gibson Girls) runs multiple bodies at once; no, I'm not claiming that Brains didn't have to do his own research to figure-out what the researcher told him.
multiplier tech" you mentioned in the thread were we talked about Brain
building the "battleship" ?
Also, something that Arthur might look into, when he talks to 'Student', the collector of the Professor's technology, after he, Arthur, is rescued from captivity by Boskone.
Part of the fictional basis of this is the "Machine Smith" Marvel character (who was 'Mr Fear' before he died and was uploaded by his robots - and was so unhappy about his flawed 'immortality' he tried to commit suicide via super hero), Will McCarthy's "Lost in Transmission", and the golems of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiln_People
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